MP Game - Pandemonium (noob/int game) - running - Page 13

Aku · #**121** August 26th, 2004, 12:49 AM

lol the game just hosted and half of us are doing our turns right now lol

deccan · #**122** August 26th, 2004, 01:45 AM

Haven't seen frosted flake around, but damn he's playing arco against type. All expansion and no research. I'm particularly interested in seeing a well-played arco since in all my SP games, the AI plays arco very badly even if given a good position on the map.

Aku · #**123** August 26th, 2004, 04:41 AM

Yeah I noticed also he has the most provinces and has no research. I found it a bit odd but if it works then use it. I am curious what his pretender is though.

deccan · #**124** August 26th, 2004, 05:28 AM

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Yeah I noticed also he has the most provinces and has no research. I found it a bit odd but if it works then use it. I am curious what his pretender is though.

With a name like Smaug? I'd bet it's a dragon.

jarenko · #**125** August 26th, 2004, 09:52 AM

How the heck did I miss a turn?

Oh well - my fault everyone. Apologies.

Thufir · #**126** August 26th, 2004, 01:02 PM

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How the heck did I miss a turn?

Travelling through a time warp and miss a day? Happens to me all the time.

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Oh well - my fault everyone. Apologies.

So it goes - it's not like we're on warp speed anyhow. With a large number of players spread around the globe I think that's impossible, regardless.

Thufir · #**127** August 26th, 2004, 01:32 PM

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deccan said:
Haven't seen frosted flake around, but damn he's playing arco against type. All expansion and no research. I'm particularly interested in seeing a well-played arco since in all my SP games, the AI plays arco very badly even if given a good position on the map.

Well, I haven't done much MP yet, but so far, in the opening game I always choose expansion over research, if I have that option. The fact that frosted has been able to expand at 1-2 provinces per turn since turn 1 is impressive to me. With the income from all those provinces he's taking, I expect he'll be able to make up on research soon enough.

I'm also wondering about his pretender design - sounds like it's capable of taking indies from turn 1. What kind of pretender can do that? And of course I must ask

-what kind of weaknesses come with such a pretender?

Aku · #**128** August 26th, 2004, 02:48 PM

Well the name is Smaug maybe whoever said it is right that its a dragon. I think the dragon can pull it off.

Aku · #**129** August 26th, 2004, 03:25 PM

only vanheim(odd enuf) left for it to quickhost

Boron · #**130** August 26th, 2004, 04:43 PM

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deccan said:
Haven't seen frosted flake around, but damn he's playing arco against type. All expansion and no research. I'm particularly interested in seeing a well-played arco since in all my SP games, the AI plays arco very badly even if given a good position on the map.

Well, I haven't done much MP yet, but so far, in the opening game I always choose expansion over research, if I have that option. The fact that frosted has been able to expand at 1-2 provinces per turn since turn 1 is impressive to me. With the income from all those provinces he's taking, I expect he'll be able to make up on research soon enough.

I'm also wondering about his pretender design - sounds like it's capable of taking indies from turn 1. What kind of pretender can do that? And of course I must ask

-what kind of weaknesses come with such a pretender?

hm perhaps a trampler like earth mother / shedu ?

a wrym can probably too .

the advantage with arco is that he doesn't need to care too much about afflictions because later his priestesses can heal them .

a wyrm with a fireshield e.g. would probably work against indies on turn 2 quite well .
i don't like the wyrm though because he is so expensive and has no slots

an artillery pretender can do too with the initial army :
a earth 9 cyclops with flying shards or a fire 9 moloch with fire darts ( evo 1 ) can rout most indies with the initial army only